Butler Derrick
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Butler Carson Derrick, Jr. (born September 30, 1936) was a United States Representative from South Carolina.
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools in Mayesville and Florence in South Carolina. He attended the University of South Carolina from 1954 to 1958 and earned an LL.B. from the University of Georgia Law School in 1965. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1965 and commenced practice in Edgefield; he served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1969 to 1974, and was a delegate to the South Carolina State Democratic conventions in 1972 and 1974.
Derrick was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1974, and was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1975 to January 3, 1995; he was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourth Congress.
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- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
